Didn't realize the ghosting was so common. I had a leadership development and coaching firm approach me to join them, asked me to interview, spent 2.5 hours of my time and then ghosted. I thought this was amusing as it shows piss poor leadership skills and they're supposed to be high quality coaches, sent an emailing saying as such, no reply. In addition to our "Who is hiring?", "who wants to be hired?", we should add "who was ghosted?", heh.

Shout out to Sourcegraph who interviewed me ~Q1, had a good process, and although it wasn't a fit, didn't ghost me. It was one of the better interviews I'd had in my career.

It is a business convo, after all.

Being ghosted is normal and expected.

If I'm ghosted, I will follow up a couple times and leave it be.

People are busy with their own lives, so I'm not offended in any way.

Not ghosting would have been nice. But being nice is not expected.

People here are so offended about being ghosted for some reason. I thought HN crowd would be pretty good at doing business. Being ghosted is the norm.

Oh I don't mind being ghosted, heck I've done it. I just didn't realize it was so prevalent. My example was more I think it was amusing the one time I did get ghosted it was for a leadership dev company.